Field-fence



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOEL HAINES, OF WEST MIDDLEBURG, OHIO.

rIELnFENcE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,821, dated October 18, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOEL HAINEs, of West Middleburg, in the county of Logan and State of Ohio, have invented certain new useful Improvements in Fences; and I do hereby declare that the same are described and represented in the following speciications and drawings.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improvements, I will proceed to describe their construction and application referring to the drawings in whichV the same letters indicate like parts in each of the figures.

Figure 1, is an elevation showing one side of my improved fence. Fig. 2, is a plan of the same. Fig. 3, is an end elevation on a side hill. Fig. 4L, is a plan showing the fence in a zigzag form.

The nature of my invention and improvements in fences, consists in rounding the upper ends of the braces, where they come in contact with the keys that lock the fence, so that the fence may be either set at a right angle on the sill or inclined, and in making one or more notches in the sill, so as to hold the fence at a right angle to the sill or inclined as may be preferred, so as to adapt the fence to side hills and uneven ground.

In the accompanyin drawings A, A, are the bars of one panel fastened to the standards B, B, and C, C, are the bars of another panel fastened to the standards D, D, as shown in the drawing Fig. l.

F, is a sill to be laid on the ground or other proper foundation, and provided with three notches on its upper side Gr, H, I, for the lower edges of the lower bars of the panels. This sill F, has two mortises shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3, for the ends of the braces J, J, which are fitted to them and the upper ends of the braces are connected together by the bars K, K, which are fastened to them, so as to leave a long slot or open space, between the ends of the braces, and between the bars K, K, for the keys L, L. The ends of the bars A, A, and O, C, extend beyond the standards at one end of each panel, as shown in the drawings, and the lower edges of the two lower bars are placed in one of the notches in the sill, and as the ends of the bars lap by one another, the keys L, L, are placed one on each side of the ends of the bars, in the slot between the ends of the braces, so as to hold the ends of the panels together, and hold up the fence. And, the ends of the braces are rounded as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3, at N, N, so that the keys will hold the panels at a right angle to the sill, or inclined as shown in Fig. 3, so as to make a perpendicular fence on a hill side by placing the lower edges of the lower bars .in one of the notches G, or I, and the position of the panels may be varied by driving one of the keys more Vthan the other, to make the panels of fence perpendicular or nearly so. There are some pins P, put through the upper ends of the keys to prevent them from being shaken below the ends of the braces by the wind.

It will be apparent from Fig. l, that the bars of the panels may be straight with one another on level land, or inclined up or down to suit uneven land, as the ends of the bars are lapped between the keys so that the panels can be vibrated either up or down edgewise to suit the undulations of the.

ground on which the fence is made.

I make the standards even with the ends of the bars at one end of each panel and fasten a staple Q, in the end of one panel, and a horizontal hook R, in the end of the other panel, so as to join the alternate ends of the panels by means of the hook R, and staple Q, and make the fence straight or zigzag as may be preferred. Fig. 4 shows an angle of the two panels connected by the above mentioned fastenings.

That I claim as my invention in the above described fence is The peculiar construction of the braces, so as to adapt them to the keys when combined with a sill having one 0r more notches so as to hold the fence perpendicular when the sill lies inclined substantially as described.

J OEL HAINES.

Witnesses:

J. DENNIS, Jr., J. F. OALLAN. 

